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Thank you for sharing this very interesting post today and awesome giveaway opportunity. I have been wondering just what the Banned Books Week was about. I have had Night Circus on my wishlist for a while now, may the gods of random smile on me:)

The American Library Association website for banned/challenged books--short list for classics only--includes To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee; 1984, by George Orwell; A Farewell to Arms and For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway; Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell; and Sophie’s Choice, by William Styron. The first four were required reading in my school days.

A commenter on Murder She Writes, however, took me aback by mentioning the Bible, which of course is banned in some places.